Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-02
TO NEW YORK.
By Rail and Ocean-A Most Delightful
summer Trip.

~ NEW tONN.
By Rail and Oeean-A Most Delightful
summer Trip.
To one born and brought up in the inter
ior. the sea has an indescribabie charm;
and 70 one accustomed 10 green fields and
quiet woods, trip through the mountains,
beneath beetling cliffs. past rushing torrents,
through frowning canons and DER dizzy
heights, presents constant panorama of
wonders.
A trip over the Chesapeake and Ohio
route and Old Dominion Line of steam
ships, from the west to New York City,
will furnish pictures 10 hand on ulemory's
wall that will gladden. lifetime OF retros-
pection.
Through trains from Louisville and Gin
cinnafi traverse the bea.s!:I. blue grass re-
gion, and the wild and romantic country Of
eastern Kentucky, until the railway greets
the shonss of the Ohio at Ashland, where
passengers from Columbus and northeast
ern Ohio are received. The route then lies
along the banks of the Ohio. past Guyan-
dotte and its Indian mounds, and skirts the
tabled Kanawha until its famous Fails are
while the eve feasts on natures loveliness.
The scenery here passes description. Hid
den in the safe bosom of the everlasting
hills. the valley has no apparent portal 10
the outer world, and might well be named
Sweet Vale of Rest" \ huge ledge OF
rocks extends across the river, over which
the great volume of water pours in tumult-
ous fury, lashing the Obs.ructing rocks in
petulance, and filling the air with clOud-like
spray. Below the falls the river is wide
and smooth, and
Inverted in the tide
Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows
throw;
While the lair trees look over. side by side,
And see themselves below.
At this point an observation car is at
tached to the train, aud as il swings round
the bend, al the jun,t on Of the Gauley and
the New, the scene changes. The wild as
pect of the canons would incite fear, but
for the feeling of admiration inspired by
their grandeur. Nature is presented in all
its force and passion, the river is foaming
torrent, boulders as large as houses Obstruct
its bed, and cliffs pierce the clouds above it
The confused mass of rocks recalls
this fable overlooked by -Esop, which We
will call the Fable Of the Rocks:
The planet Saturn had cO1rted the az
fections of the earth. but his suit met with
no announcement A larze ring, Of eN-
ceeding briiliancy, was given Saturn by the
gods, that he might plight his troth with
the earth. But the earth. in coluetry. hes
itating to receive it, greatly chagrined Sat
urr, and for spite, he turned his smile to
Venus. At this the earth flew into rage,
and In the excess of her passion, shook an
avalanche from her sublime heights, emitted
he
rocks and boulders from her towering
peaks into the valley below"
Saturn still preserves the ring, but the
earth has never recovered from the stock.
Passing beneath the shadow of Hawks
Nest, the line runs through Hawks Nest
canons, pass the New River coal fields,
brushes the time stained ruins Of an old
fortress whose history Is lost in antiquity;
gIides under Whitcombs Rock, and past
sombre pines and glowing sumach, bright
poplar. maple and oak; along the rivers
brim, where bOughs of the graceful willow
sway in the breeze; where dogwood bios
SONS ana the delicate red bud blend their
colors with the forest green, and where
white breasted sycamores stand out near
the waters edge like age at the carnival of /
youth, onlookers merely.
The last glimpse of Hawks Nest canons
is had from the Balcony of the Winds"
opposite the station OF Echo. Twelve hun
dred feet above the water, the balcony juts
out from cliff, exposed on all sides to the
wind. Ii is one of the grsndest Of the pc
culiariy grand scenes of these canOns.
The New River is left at Hinton. and the
valley of the picturesque GTeenbrier entered. |
The mountains curve with the sinouS
stream, their graceful outlines set off by |
natural terraces rising one above the other |
to their summit. Nature has graead the
scene with more adOrnment than ever could
have been given it by art.
Then comes the galaxy of resorts for
health and pleasure which have made the |
mountains of Virginia famous both at home |
and abroad. Who has not heard of Red |
Sulphur. Salt Sulphur, White Sulphur, Old |
Sweet, Hot Springs, Warm Springs, Dag |
gers, Rock Bridge Alum and countless 9TH |
er healing waters; of Luray Caverns, the |
Natural Bridge and Mt Rogers, whose
peak the passing clouds caress?
At Alton, on the eastern slope Of Blue
Ridge. the view from the car windows Is
ineYpressibly beautiful. Piedmont valley
runs OF thirty or forty miles, and as one
looks from its cultivated fields, dotted over
with pretty farm houses and irrigated by
silyery streams. out upon the great noun
tains which encompass it, their submits
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